A peer-to-peer network architecture for emerging applications

There has been a noticeable rise in machine-to-machine (M2M) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications during the past decade. This has been mostly prompted by the increase in the number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and research in autonomous cars. Additionally, information security and privacy issues are becoming more critical with the rapid growth and complexity of network attached devices. As we depend more on the Internet, we become more vulnerable to security breaches. The rise in communication is also placing a huge toll on the Internet because most of these applications use the traditional client-server network infrastructure where the clients are served by the central server(s). This network model is also vulnerable to single point of failure, not ensuring high availability that is critical for sensitive applications. This paper presents a novel network architecture that leverages peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, which communicate via overlay networks to ensure high availability and efficient Internet bandwidth usage.